Improvement in policemen s batons



UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

sIMoN BEERY, or URBANA, OHIO,

AND JOHN W. MCDONALD, OF HOUSTON, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN POLICEIVIENS BATONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,610, dated October 14, 1873 application filed April 12, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SIMON BEERY, of Urbana, in the county of Ohampaign and State of Ohio, and JOHN W. MCDONALD, of Houston, in the county of Harris and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Policemens Clubs; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,

' clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a weapon for policemen, which shall be quite as efiective for defence or offence as the wellknown locust billy, or policemans baton,

.' and it consists inra club made wholly of india;

rubber, gutta-percha, or eqiii'v'al X1 le ,lnntearmwm mr, w i v In'iie drawingl igure 1 is a side view of the 'and, instead of penetrating through Skin'and flesl'f't'o the skull, and perhaps cracliingi.that, the effects of the blow will extend over a "broadenrsurface and 'pe quite as eff egtiye iri quieting a disorderly siiliject and restorin g order as the infliction of bloodierand deeperwounds.

The peace and good order of society require that the policemen carry an effective weapon in the form of a club, while humanity requires that the weapon be of such anature that needless wounds cannot be inflicted.

What we claim is- As a new article of manufacture, a policemans club, formed wholly of rubber or si nilar flexible material, the head aiidfliafidle 139i g solidangl t l 1e stem p ith or without ametallic core, B, substantially as described.

' "'STMON 3E ERY.

JOHN W. MCDONALD.

Witnesses:

O. SEDGWICK, T. B. MOSHER. 

